1 This [is] the genealogy of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him: 2 male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called his name Adam, in the day in which he made them. 3◆ And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] after his [own] form, and after his [own] image, and he called his name Seth. 4◆ And the days of Adam, which he lived after his begetting Seth, were seven hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters. 5◆ And all the days of Adam which he lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died. 6◆ Now Seth lived two hundred and five years, and begot Enosh. 7◆ And Seth lived after his begetting Enosh, seven hundred and seven years, and he begot sons and daughters. 8◆ And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. 9◆ And Enosh lived a hundred and ninety years, and begot Kenan. 10◆ And Enosh lived after his begetting Kenan, seven hundred and fifteen years, and he begot sons and daughters. 11◆ And all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died. 12◆ And Kenan lived a hundred and seventy years, and he begot Mahalalel. 13◆ And Kenan lived after his begetting Mahalalel, seven hundred and forty years, and he begot sons and daughters. 14◆ And all the days of Kenan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died. 15◆ And Mahalalel lived a hundred and sixty and five years, and he begot Jared. 16◆ And Mahalalel lived after his begetting Jared, seven hundred and thirty years, and he begot sons and daughters. 17◆ And all the days of Mahalalel were eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he died. 18◆ And Jared lived a hundred and sixty and two years, and begot Enoch. 19◆ And Jared lived after his begetting Enoch, eight hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. 20◆ And all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he died. 21◆ And Enoch lived a hundred and sixty and five years, and begot Methuselah. 22◆ And Enoch was well-pleasing to God after his begetting Methuselah, two hundred years, and he begot sons and daughters. 23◆ And all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty and five years. 24◆ And Enoch was well-pleasing to God, and was not found, because God translated him. 25◆ And Methuselah lived a hundred and sixty and seven years, and begot Lamech. 26◆ And Methuselah lived after his begetting Lamech eight hundred and two years, and begot sons and daughters. 27◆ And all the days of Methuselah which he lived, were nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he died. 28◆ And Lamech lived a hundred and eighty and eight years, and begot a son. 29◆ And he called his name Noah, saying, This one will cause us to cease from our works, and from the toils of our hands, and from the earth, which the Lord God has cursed. 30◆ And Lamech lived after his begetting Noah, five hundred and sixty and five years, and begot sons and daughters. 31◆ And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred and fifty-three years, and he died. 32◆ And Noah was five hundred years old, and he begot three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Genesis 5 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (1)
- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Adam
Formed from the dust by God's own hand, the father of all who live.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 1–5
Enoch
He walked with God, and was not, for God took him — he did not die.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:21–24; Hebrews 11:5
Enosh
In his days people first began to call on the name of the LORD.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 4:26; 5:6–11
Jared
Father of Enoch, who lived nine hundred sixty-two years.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:15–20
Kenan
A quiet link in the long line from Seth toward Noah.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:9–14
Lamech
He named his son Noah, hoping for rest from the toil of cursed ground.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:25–31
Mahalalel
His name means 'praise of God,' one link in the primeval line.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:12–17
Methuselah
The oldest man recorded in Scripture, living nine hundred sixty-nine years.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:21–27
Noah
A righteous man who found favor with God and rode out the flood in an ark.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 5:28–9:29
Seth
The son granted in Abel's place, through whom the godly line continued.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 4:25–5:8
Cross references (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10; Genesis 1:26–27; Hebrews 1:3; 1 Corinthians 11:7
- 2 Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6; Genesis 2:23; Malachi 2:15; Genesis 1:27
- 3 Genesis 4:25; 1 Corinthians 15:39; John 3:6; Job 25:4; Ephesians 2:3
- 4 1 Chronicles 1:1–3; Luke 3:36–38; Genesis 5:10; Genesis 5:7; Genesis 5:19
- 5 Genesis 5:11; Genesis 5:8; Genesis 3:19; 2 Samuel 14:14; 1 Corinthians 15:21–22
- 6 Genesis 4:26
- 9 Luke 3:37; 1 Chronicles 1:2
- 12 Luke 3:37
- 15 1 Chronicles 1:2
- 18 Jude 14–15; 1 Chronicles 1:3; Genesis 4:17; Luke 3:37
- 21 Luke 3:37
- 22 1 Thessalonians 2:12; Genesis 17:1; Malachi 2:6; Genesis 6:9; Luke 1:6
- 24 Hebrews 11:5–6; 1 John 1:7; Genesis 5:22; Luke 23:43; 2 Kings 2:11
- 25 Genesis 4:18
- 29 Matthew 24:37; 2 Peter 2:5; Hebrews 11:7; Ezekiel 14:20; Ezekiel 14:14
- 32 Genesis 6:10; Genesis 10:21; Genesis 7:13; 1 Chronicles 1:4–28; Genesis 10:32
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Why does my Bible say something different?
- Genesis 5 and 11: why the patriarchs’ ages differ
In the Greek Septuagint most patriarchs in Genesis 5 and 11 become fathers about 100 years later than in the Hebrew text, and Genesis 11 adds a second Cainan, whom St Luke also names (Luke 3:36). The result is a world history over a thousand years longer. The Byzantine calendar was built on the Greek numbers. No doctrine depends on either set.
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Then because it is written, "And Seth lived 205 years," or, according to the Hebrew reading, "105 years, and begat Enos," who but a rash man could affirm that this was his first-born?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For in ordinary language an image is a motionless representation of that which has motion; but in this case it is the living reproduction of the Living One, and is more exactly like than was Seth to Adam, or any son to his father.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Will any man do so when it is written of him, "And he begat sons and daughters, and all the days of Seth were 912 years, and he died?" And similarly regarding those whose years are afterwards mentioned, it is not disguised that they begat sons and daughters.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Further, Seth signifies "resurrection," and Enos his son signifies "man," not as Adam, which also signifies man, but is used in Hebrew indifferently for man and woman, as it is written, "Male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam," leaving no room to doubt that though the woman was distinctively called Eve, yet the …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)